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It’s the little things (lemy.lol)
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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Capillary action; which is a combination of adhesion, cohesion, and surface tension and for superfluids the additional ack of friction.

Unfortunately, if cohesion is removed from water, this might drastically change if the water can crawl up the container (the details would be based on the specific physics of this imaginary universe).

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